# Audition

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- Book: [Audition](https://www.bookquiver.com/ryu-murakami/audition) ([Audition.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/ryu-murakami/audition.md))
- Authors: [Ryū Murakami](https://www.bookquiver.com/ryu-murakami)
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- ISBN: 978-03-9333-841-6
- Pages: 192
- Published: 2010-01-01
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The long-awaited translation of the novel behind the cult classic Japanese movie. In this gloriously over-the-top tale, Aoyama, a widower who has lived alone with his son ever since his wife died seven years before, finally decides it is time to remarry. Since Aoyama is a bit rusty when it comes to dating, a filmmaker friend proposes that, in order to attract the perfect wife, they do a casting call for a movie they don’t intend to produce. As the résumés pile up, only one of the applicants catches Aoyama’s attention―Yamasaki Asami―a striking young former ballerina with a mysterious past. Blinded by his instant and total infatuation, Aoyama is too late in discovering that she is a far cry from the innocent young woman he imagines her to be. The novel’s fast-paced, thriller conclusion doesn’t spare the reader as Yamasaki takes off her angelic mask and reveals what lies beneath.